#internet love machine

[earlycuntsets]

it's the 2000s and MCR is your new fav.

[trebuchet151]

This is jumping the queue bc some really cool people reblogged my last post of Corey and they escaped containment.

Updated sidestep design perpetual WIP

Sidestep days vs retribution. They're slowly reacquiring their self expression. Next book will probably be the full return of the scene/punk look

Bonus Corey sans most of their clothing to show off their tattoos under the cut. CW for healed SH scars

Yes that is Ortega's bedroom yes I half assed it. I drew this background in my car at work when it was like 110 degrees idgaf

[thoughtportal]

Big Media’s lobbyists have been running a smear campaign trying to paint the Internet Archive as a greedy big tech operation bent on stealing books—which is totally absurd. If you’ve ever used the WayBack Machine, listened to their wonderful archives of live music, or checked out one of their 37 million texts, it’s time to speak up. With publishing revenues approaching 30 billion per year in the US and monopolistic consolidation among publishing corporations, the publishing industry is incredibly powerful and moves aggressively to silence dissent. 

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[brookbee]

Desktop wallpaper for David Bowie's album Heathen, originally shared via BowieNet

[furbovision]

a selection of banners from adoptafurby.com

[dandunn]

Everyone say Thank you Mr gun-for-a-face for giving us Robot Labor Day 🥰🥰🥰🥰

[sylvies-kablooie]

okay i wasn’t gonna do it. but i am. can you put ur ultimate sylki songs in the tags. tysm.

[lucifersimp]

PSA For All Wayback Machine Users

If you want to save the URL of an AO3 fic that is rated Mature, Explicit, Not Rated, or uses the Content Warnings, you need to save the ?view_adult=true version of the URL (same URL with ?view_adult=true at the end)

If you don't add that at the end, your archive will be completely useless because the Wayback machine will not save the fic. It will automatically save the "This work could have adult content. If you proceed you have agreed that you are willing to see such content" page.

Remember this? Most of us have an account and don't see it anymore, but the Wayback Machine is an archive, you can't log in. It treats you like a non registered user. If you click on "Proceed" and the ?view_adult=true page isn't archived, you can't read the fic.

Archive the actual fics, not the adult content warning page!

Always add ?view_adult=true at the end of the URL

*You should also save the ?view_full_work=true of multi-chaptered fics!

If it's a mature fic, it's

?view_adult=true&view_full_work=true

*and always download your favorite fics to have backups

[vmkhoneyy]

Reporting AI ads and listing them as malicious and I mean it with every fiber of my being ,

[weedle-testaburger]

i'm lowkey tempted to post my brother's cats on here bc they're Excellent but i don't know if he'd approve

[crowcryptid]

the disinformation that went on in the past 24 hours is why we now have programs and websites that say “oops the rats are chewing up the servers again :(“ instead of anything useful

We have got to make owning a home computer widespread again. We have got to get rid of the tablets and put Linux on those school chromebooks so the children do not get scared of the command line.

Genuinely so many issues could be fixed if people were willing to look up how something works before saying shit, and if the people answering these questions were less stuck up their asses and used less jargon. <- this advice applies to tech issues in general, though the situation that happened today can’t be fixed by the average person because it requires administrator rights to fix. Unless you happened to get lucky and rebooting over and over fixed it for you.

[elytrafemme]

actually fell for the biggest freak trap of 1993 on my instagram. who want me

[flightybuttlass]

I love asking for obscure manga recs and getting told about stuff that I can find at a Barnes and Noble /s

[batri-jopa]

Found on facebook today

I hate that it looks like some "list of shame"

[lizardthelizard]

That playlist though. Oh no. OH NO! Feelings for and about Mulan. Right through the heart. I love "Another Love" so very much, but I'm often said when you watch some fanedit and it's kinda missing this beat how, well, the previous/other/first love was so all consuming, that finding something new is hard. Now you make me think about Sleeping Warrior vs Red Warrior here, OBVIOUSLY!

Mulan hitting rock bottom, wandering around aimless after leaving Aurora, because obviously she didn't join Robin. And we see her in that tavern, given up on honor (her truest of loves, clearly). Hitting the other direction of her whole character so hard. Meeting Ruby is nice, but falling for her doesn't come easy at all. She had her hopes set up on Aurora and it destroyed her completely, now where is the energy to muster up the courage to go for a second round?

~And if somebody hurts you, I wanna fight But my hand's been broken one too many times~ HELP! I'M DYING OVER HERE WITH THE IMAGES!! Thinking back to the intensity of the first time and while wanting love not being able to go for it... yeah, very canon, very tragic.

I'm listening through the whole thing, but I saw it ends with Marina. Great. The only thing more devastating would have been a Florence song. Marina's voice alone can carry this specific kind of melancholia/sadness... ~I'm a nomad [...] no sweet home~ Yeah, a Mulan song. What a choice. Never meeting anybody from her past, not getting her own happy ending.

Also, yes to the thing you said - she is so terribly stubborn. They gave us a fullfledged 3dimensional character with flaws, who would also bring a very useful skillset to the table and with more time all those walls she clearly build could have been torn down by the right person. Damn.

(Maybe I should finally cave and get spotify, make things easier. lol)

Another Love THEE reason for this playlist! At least, when I listened to it some years ago, it was the first (and for a while the only song) I had on her playlist. Because it was so perfect for her!! and I HAD to have it on some kind of Mulan playlist.

But YEAH!! Mulan's heartbreak over Aurora is so evident in season 5 and it really changes her as a person. And she becomes so bitter and so jaded (and then canon doesn't even give her a happy ending and she has to third wheel AGAIN 😭)

But when you throw Ruby into the mix? Oh boy, I'm VERY here for this. It won't be easy for either of them (Mulan struggling to open up and put herself out there again and with Ruby viewing herself as a monster still and worrying about hurting Mulan if they're too close) but...if they were both able to work up the courage and power through any of those issues... 👀

Also, see, I think it's such a shame because I feel like Mulan IS three dimensional, yes! But sometimes fandom (very broadly speaking) treats her like she's not. And she gets watered down into this kind of 'girlboss' character. And yeah, she IS a girlboss! Sure! But she's kind of a dork-ass-loser as well sometimes and she takes things way too seriously and she's so closed off.

Anyway, the point is that, like many ouat side characters, Mulan deserved so much more from canon.

[running-in-the-dark]

I've basically been moving non-stop all day for a week (except Monday when I went to the doctor, and then the antibiotics were mean to me), everything hurts, but hey at least my room is somewhat close to being finished!

now there's just everything else left to do....

I've also had to deal with builders and electricians and a painter and I don't remember who else every day this week. I think I did alright. didn't have a panic attack or anything, it didn't even make me very anxious. so that's good! but I want to be left alone for several months now please 🙃